I bought some papaya when I was at the store the other day. I have had papaya before at restaurants and I think there is some in the Dole fruit cups that I like to eat. But I have never handled one before.
Thankfully, it came packaged already cut in half. But I didn't know how to eat it. Sometimes I feel like such an idiot when I don't know how to eat a certain food. But in my dorky way I also think it is fun to figure out. There are these black seeds in the middle. I tasted one and it was soft and reminded me of a pomegranate. But it didn't taste very good so I gave them as a treat to my parrot. He hasn't touched them yet.
There is also a soft skin on the fruit. Is this edible? I wasn't sure. So I just sliced it up and ate the fruit out of it, kind of how you would eat the inside out of a sliced orange. It was then I decided to check online and I found out that you are supposed to cut away the skin. The parrot got the leftover skin as well, and that he loves.
I found a clip of The Hippy Gourmet slicing up mangoes and papayas to make salsa. He shows you just how to prepare the fruit.
Hi Rachel, I'm from Malaysia, where papayas are plentiful and cheap. Just scoop out the black seeds with your hands. Then, you could eat the flesh with a spoon, with the skin acting as a bowl. That's how I like to eat it.
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